Nicola Pucci

Nicola Pucci

About Nicola Pucci

Nicola Pucci, after completing school, attended a four year course in Advertising Illustration at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Rome.
After a period spent in the region of Bolzano, drawing the exercise book covers for the famous italian company Pigna, he moved to Rome in order to devote himself to painting. From 1995 to the current period, his art works have been constantly exhibited in Italy, United Kingdom and the United States.
Over the years, Nicola Puccis style, has caught the attention of personalities from the art world such as the gallery owner Larry Gagosian and the art critics Carlo Bilotti and Philippe Daverio who have become passionate supporters and collectors of his creations.
Nicola Pucci has recently exhibited at venues such as the Spoleto Contemporary Art Museum, Palazzo Colicola and the Bilotti Museum in Rome, becoming the first living artist to be given a one-man show at this prestigious venue.
Nicola Pucci boasts a masterly technique with which he builds his images layer-by-layer with dozens of brush strokes and shadows. Paying remarkable attention to detail, he reworks his canvases multiple times over years until faithfully rendering his unique vision of reality.
For Pucci, the process of careful observation results in a new interpretation of reality in which the impossible and possible are merged. He combines elements from different sources within a single painting. His canvases depict homogeneous groups of figures, often suspended in space but united in a silent dialogue, a particular gesture that speaks for itself.
Dreamlike, theatrical and haunting, Pucci's works are ascribed with an invisible, cathartic energy that is clearly perceivable by our senses. While drawing upon various influences including Surrealism and then the art of Francis Bacon, Nicola Pucci nonetheless stands apart from defined contemporary trends or movements.